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Re:Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structu... by nothrabannosir on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:21AM (#11806652)
> This looks like it was written by a 16 year-old student who heard "lock free", and went "cool, I'll write a library!"

Nothing wrong with that, though. In fact, that's great.

Word to the 16-year-olds (or any-year-olds) doing that: put a disclaimer in your README to avoid this kind of reply being top comment in a HN thread about your work :)

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Re:Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structu... by adekok on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:23AM (#11806668)
I wrote code when I was 16. There's nothing wrong with being that age.

What is wrong is not learning from others. This library follows many practices which are well known as "worst practices" in the industry.

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Re:Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structu... by partycoder on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:31PM (#11808848)
Can you elaborate more on those "worst practices"?
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